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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 729,822, dated June 2, 1903. Application filed July 11, 1902. Serial No. 115,229. (No model.)

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Be it known that 1, CHARLES P. WETMORE, a citizen of the United States, residing in New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain is a side elevation of the same, showing the left-hand side. Fig. 3is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the Fig. 5 is a plan view of. the same. larged side elevation of the adjustable eccentric for the feed. Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the same on the line 0 oofFig. 6. Fig. 8 is a sectional view on the line p1) of Figs. 1 and 3 on a smaller scale, the main shaft being sectioned on the line r of Fig. 3, some of the partsbeing shown in elevation. Fig. 9 is a sectional plan of the same mainly on the line a of Fig. 2. Fig. 9 is a side elevation of a modified carrier-cam. Fig.9 is a side elevation ofthe opposite side of the said cam. Fig. 10 is a sectional plan of parts of the machine, the frame being sectioned on the line 06 as of Fig. 1, illustrating mainly the feeding mechanism. h Fig. 11 is an enlarged side elevation, partly in vertical section, showing more particularly the stock-clamping devices of the feed mechanism .as viewed from the right-hand side of Fig. 10. Fig. 12 is a sectional view, partly in elevation, of a portion of the same on theline w w of Fig. 11. Fig. 13 is a plan view of the die-bed and connected parts, partly in broken-out section. Fig. 14.

is'a vertical section on the line '2) o of Fig. 13.

Fig. 15 is a sectional view of parts on the line 91 of Fig. 13, showing the hand-operated stop and its lever in side elevation. Fig. .16 is a .parts in a different position. like view of the same with the parts in a still difierent position.

plan of the same.

tion of the dies and punches on the line 8 s depressed position.

of its operating mechanism, together with a diagrammatic View of the dies and their work. Fig. 22 is a like View of the same with the Fig. 23 is a Fig. 23 is an enlarged sectional view on theline it, Fig. 23. Fig. 24 is a detached edge view of the carrier on the same scale as Fig. 23, but turned over bottom side up. Fig. 25 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 26 is adetached edge view of a carrier for square nuts. Fig. 27 is a Fig. 28 is a vertical secof Fig. 13, the same being partly in elevation. Fig. 29 is a diagrammatic view of the central hole punches, the blanking out punches, and their work. Fig. 30 is a sectional plan of the frictional driver for the feedshaft. Fig. 31 is a central vertical section of the crowning-die with its knock-out in the Fig. 32 is avertical section of part of the feed mechanism on the line h of Fig. 10. Fig. 33 is a sectional side elevationof the feed grip-lever and its camball. Fig. 34 is a transverse section of same, partly in elevation, on the line it, Fig. 33. Fig. 35 is a reverse plan view of the piercingpunches and their holder. Fig. 36 is a sectional side elevation of the same.

E designates the frame of the machine, provided with a bed 35, to the under side of which any suitable legs 36 may be secured, the said legs being only partially shown. At the rear of the frame E is the main shaft F, carrying the driving-wheel G, loose thereon, but connected therewith for driving by an ordinary clutch-pin 37, Fig. 9. The middle portion of the said shaft F is provided with two cranks 38, upon which the pitmen 39 are mounted.

The upper ends of these pitmen are connect: 1

ways 43 inside of the frame E, which ways are in alinement with the ways 44 of the pressslide 45. The main toggle-lever is connected with the press-slide 45 by means of the lower toggle-lever 46 and to the frame E of the press or machine by means of the upper toggle-lever 47. The upper end of this toggle-lever 47 takes its bearing in the under side of a vertically-adjustable block 48, the upper side of which is tapered, as shown in Fig. 1, and above the said block and between the same and the upper part of the frame is a tapering block 49, adjustable endwise by means of the screws 50, that pass into threaded holes in the ends of said block, while the heads of the said screws bear upon the frame, as shown. Adjusting the block lengthwise adjusts the block 48 up or down to vary the bearing or abutment for the upper toggle-lever 47. The said upper toggle-lever is held in engagement with the block 48 by means of an eyebolt 51, that serves as a hinge-lug for the pintle 52 at the upper end of the said toggle-lever. The said eyebolt passes through the upper part of the press-frame and is provided with a nut 53 for changing its position and for holding it in place under the varying adjustments of the block 48. The toggle-levers 46 and 47 are connected to the main toggle-lever 40 by means of cars or caps 54, that embrace the trunnions 41 and are secured to the ends of the hub of the said lever 40. The ends of the toggle-levers 46 and 47 rest in suitable sockets in the upper and lower sides of the lever 40, and pintles 55 pass through the said ends and the ears or caps 54, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 8. Thelower toggle-lever is connected to the press-slide45 by means of the eyebolt 56 and pintle 57.

As the shaft F revolves through its cranks and imparts movement to the pitmen 39, the said pitmen rock the main toggle-lever 40 on its trunnions, and thereby deflect the toggle-levers, as shown in Fig. 8, to raise the press-slide and then to straighten them, as indicated by broken lines in Figs. 2 and 4, to lower the press-slide to its lowermost position, the trnnnions of the main toggle-lever moving up and down in alinement with the slide as it moves up and down. This mechanism for operating the press-slide is particularly useful in a nut-machine,especially when duplicate series of operations are going on at the same time, and two or more complete nuts are made at every revolution of the main shaft, as hereinafter described, because with the mechanism hereinbefore described the most powerful part of the stroke is at its end cured to the shaft by the side of the flange 59 is a hub-inclosing case 60, and surrounding the hub of the flange 59 is an annular plate 61, that is secured to thecase 60 by means of bolts 63 and so as to embrace a frictionwasher 62, Fig. 30, of leather or other suitable material, between the flange 59 and annular plate 61 with as much friction as may be desired, the said friction being regulated by means of the screws or bolts 63. In order that the friction may be mainly between the annular plate,washer,and flangeinstead of between the case and end of the hub of the flange I provide some suitable antifriction devicesas, for example, a hardened washer or a series of balls 64, Fig. 30. By the side of the hub case 60 I secure a sliding shipper-collar 65 on a spline, so as to necessarily rotate with the shaft, although it may slide thereon, and to the shipper I secure a pin 66, that extends through the hub-case 60 and bears by its end on the end of the hub of the flange 59 and normally within a notch 67, inclined on its forward side, as shown in Fig. 30. It is not necessary to secure the pin 66 to the shippercollar 65. It may lie loosely in the case 60 with its ends abutting, respectively, against the flanged hub 59 and the shipper-collar 65. The dart on the shipper-collar 65 indicates the direction that the said collar and shaft revolve. The friction is adjusted so as to be fully strong enough to carry the intended load, but so as to slip when anything happens that causes any material excess in the power required to drive it. In adjusting the friction the annular plate changes its position slightly on the hub of the sprocket-wheel; but the said sprocket-wheel, the flange, and the hub-case remain unchanged in their longitudinal position on the shaft. Whenever the friction-driver ceases to carry its load or excess of load, the sprocket-wheel 58 and the flanged hub 59 stop or lag behind the hubinclosing case 60 and shipper-collar 65,whereby the incline of the notch 67 in the flanged hub 59 acts to push the shipper-collar endwise on the shaft, moving it away from the said flanged hub and changing it from the position shown in Fig. 30 to that shown in Fig. 9. The action of the shipper-collar in thus changing its position will be described in connection with the other stopping devices.

At the rearof the frame E, near its bed 35, is a counter-shaft I, carrying several cams and driven by the friction-driver before described. As shown, the necessary connection between the friction driver is made through the sprocket-wheel 58, chain 68, and sprocketwheel 69 on the counter or cam shaft I. For convenience and safety I inclose the said sprocket-wheels and chain in a case 70. Upon this shaft I is the adjustable eccentric 71, that actuates the feed-pitmen 72. The hub 73 of the said eccentric is rigidly secured to the shaft I in any proper manner and is dovetailed on one side or provided with other proper ways for the dovetailed slide 74 of the eccentric 71, thatis received and guided there- ICO in, as best shown in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 10. The

. under side of the bed 78 of the feed-slide 79.

This slide 79 reciprocates from right to left in suitable ways 80. On the upper side of the feed-slide actuator 77 there is an oblique slot 81, Figs. 10 and 32, for acting upon the lower end of the pin 82, made fast in the slide 79 and passing through a slot 83 in the bed.- 78, whereby the front to rear reciprocating movement of the feed-slide actuator imparts a right-and-left reciprocating movement to the feed-slide. In order to prevent wear on the lower end of the pin 82, I prefer to insert the said end into a block 84, fitted to the slot 81,as shown in Fig. 32 and indicated by broken lines in Fig. 10.

The stock from which to make the nuts may be in the form of bars; but I prefer to take the stock 85 from a coil and pass it through the straightener-rollers 97 and over the top of the feed-slide into and through the feed grip holder or standard 86. Holdingjaws 87 are held between the front and rear uprights of the said holder, between which jaws the stock 85 may pass.' The lower jaw will remain stationary in the holder, while the upper one of the jaws 87 may rise and fall sufficiently to grasp and release the stock and to come together when the stock runs out. One or both of these jaws are recessed transversely, as shown in Figs. 11 and 12, sufficiently to receive between them when closed the automatic stop -pin 98, hereinafter described. The grip-lever 88 is pivoted by pin 89 in the holder 86 and provided with an adjusting-screw 90 for bearing upon the upper one of the grip or holding jaws 87 for adjustably holding the stock in the feed-slide, the said lever being actuated separately from the feed-slide by means of the grip-cam 91 on the shaft I. In order that the said lever maybe thrown out of action when desired, I provide its cam end with an adjustable cam-ball 92, pivoted on the said end by the pin 93, as shown in Figs. 11, 33, and 34, and within a slot in the said lever I pivot the releasing-handle 94 on the pin 95. The head of this releasinghandle has a truncated or inclined face 96, Fig. 33, that projects from the pivot-pin 95 aless distance than does the adjacent rounded portion of the said head. The body portion of the cam-ball 92 is slotted longitudinally, so as to receive the end of the grip-lever 88 into it, and when it is in a position parallel with the end of the said lever, as shown in Fig. 11, the lower edge of the said lever rests in the bottom of the said longitudinal slot.- When the releasing-handle 94 is turned into the position shown in the said Fig. 11, its inclined or trun' cated face 96 is parallel to the lower edge of the said lever and also rests on the bottom of the said slot, in which position the nose of the camball 92 is as near thelever as it can be, so that the lever is released from the action of the said cam to such an extent that the lever has no gripping action on the holdingjaws. By turning the releasing-handle into the position shown in Figs. 33 and 34 the straight or inclined face 96 is withdrawn from the bottom of the slot in the body of the cam-ball 92 and its projecting rounded end bears thereonto force thecam-ball 92 outwardly from the lever, as shown in Fig. 33, so that the cam 91 then moves the grip-lever 8S sufficiently to firmly grasp the stock and cause the stock to be carried or fed forwardly one step at the next forward movement of the feed-slide.

The front upright of the jaw-holder S6 of the feed-slide 79 is provided with a sliding automatic stop-pin 98, the inner end of which pin normally bears against the edge of the stock 85 as it is held within the jaws 87. When the stock runs out, this pin may pass inwardly into the recess provided for it between the said jaws. This pin is pressed inwardly by means of an adj usting-screw 99 in the automatic stop-lever 100, that is pivoted in the front part of the feed-slide 79 by means of the pin 101, Fig. 11. The outer end of the automatic stop-pin is provided with a rod 102, the upper end of which rod is connected with the catch 103, Fig. 1, that is pivoted to the upper end of the angle-lever 104. A spring is secured by one end to the angle-lever 104 and by its other end. to the catch 103 and acts with a constant tendency to pull the connecting-rod 102 and automatic stop-lever 100 upwardly, so as to bring the catch in front of the shoulder or collar 106 on the clutch triprod 107. The angle-lever 104 is pivoted at the junction of its arms to the frame F by means of the bolt 108 and by the outer end of its horizontal arm to the press-slide 45 by means of the bolt or pin 109.

Upon the right-hand side of the press-frame an ordinary clutch-lever 110 is pivoted by the stud 111, with its handle end projecting toward the front and its opposite end in position to act upon the clutch-pin 37 when the said end is depressed for engaging and withdrawing the clutch-pin in the ordinary manner. A spring 112 is secured byone end to the frame E and by its other end to the clutchlever with a constant tendency to raise the handle end of the said lever and to depress its opposite end for withdrawing the clutchpin to stop the press. Upon the handle end of the clutch-lever there is a shoulder 113, beveled on its under face and arranged in position for being engaged by the holding end of the clutch trip-rod 107, the said end being beveled back of its holding face. A spring 114 on the said trip-rod acts with a constant tendency to force said rod endwise into position for engagement with'the'shoulder'113 of the clutch-lever. This trip-rod is also pivotally connected with the handle end of the shipper-lever 115, that is pivoted by the bolt 116 to a bracket at the left-hand side of the press-frame and engages by its fork the shipper-collar in connection with the friction-driver before described for driving the counter-shaft I.

When the clutch-lever is released to the action of the spring 112,- its beveled rear end is depressed so as to engage the clutch-pin 37 and withdraw it for stopping the shaft F, while the driving-wheel G continues its movement. To start the shaft again, the handle end of the clutch-lever is depressed, when the beveled face of its shoulder 113 engages the beveled end of the clutch trip-rod and forces it back against the power of the spring 114 until the said beveled faces pass each other, and then the spring throws the said rod back again to engage the shoulder 113 and hold the clutch-lever away from the clutch-pin, so that its spring (not shown) acts to couple the driving-wheel with the shaft in the ordinary manner, and the shaft continues to revolve as long as the clutch-lever is thus held down. As the press-slide moves up and down the latch 103 on the upper end of the upright arm of the angle-lever continually moves from right to left; but so long as the latch is held down by the automatic stop-lever its movement is an idle -one, as it freely moves underneath the collar 106 on the clutch triprod without any engagement therewith. -When the machine is properly adjusted, the end of the automatic stop-pin 98 bears on the edge of the stock 85, and the stock thus holds the latch 103 out of engagement with the clutch trip-rod 107 so long as the grippingjaws 87 of the feed-slide are supplied with stock. Whenever the stock runs out, there is no longer anything to hold the outer end of the automatic stop-lever down, as the resistingstop-pin 98 moves freely'in the space between the jaws 87. The jaws are provided with the transverse semicircular grooves, so as not to interfere with the inward movement of the stop-pin 98 even. if the jaws came to- By thus releasing the stop-pin and; lever 98 and 100 the shouldered end of the gether.

latch 103 moves upwardly under the influence of its spring 105, so that at the next outward movement of the upper end of the upright member of the angle-lever 104 the said latch engagesthe collar 106 on the clutch triprod and trips the clutch-lever 110 to stop the shaft by throwing the clutch-lever into action. Again, if the friction-driver from any cause has more load imposed on it than it can drive the shipper-collar 65 will be shifted in the manner before described, and thereby move the shipper-lever 115, so as to operate the clutch trip-rod 107 to release the clutchlever and stop the machine. It will thus be seen that the trip-rod 107 may be automatically operated to release the clutch-lever by of the several punches.

either one of two different mechanisms attwo different parts of the machine.

To the under side of the press-slide I secure the subpress-slide 117, and upon the bed 35 of the frame I secure the die-bed 118. I have not shown any holes through the bed 35 of the press, but it will of course be provided with a vertical passage or passages to register with the holes in the die-bed. The rear part of the die-bed 118 is provided with guideposts 119, and the subpress-slide 117 is provided with guiding-sockets 120, to which the guide-posts are fitted. To the under side of the subpress-slide 117 I secure the punchholder 121. The under face of the subpress may, if desired, be grooved or recessed to receive a steel anvil-strip 122, Figs. 17 and 28, for a backing or abutment for the upper ends The punch-holder is provided with ordinary punch-sockets and set-screws to receive and hold the two blanking-out punches 123 and 124 and the hammers or plungers 125. The punch 124 is provided with a pilot-pin 126, and each of the hammers or plungers 125 is provided with long pilot-pins 127. I employ two piercingpunches 128, Fig. 28, and for convenience I secure both of the punches in a subpunchholder 129 of a cylindrical form, and which subholder may be held in a round socket within the punch-holder by a set-screw in the ordinary manner of holding punches within their holder. The projecting lower end of the subpunch-holder 129 is slabbed off on one side to a half-cylinder and provided'with a groove or recess 130 at the junction of its whole and half cylinder, and extending down from the said recess are the semicircular sockets 131 to receive the piercing-punches 128. The upper ends of these punches are provided with a flange 132, that enters the recess 130. A cap or segmental holder 133, having a rabbet at its upper end and semicircular sockets, (which rabbet and sockets correspond with the recess and sockets 130 and 131 as to fitting the punches 128,) is placed on the outer side of the said punches and held there by the ring 13a and its set-screw 135, whereby the piercing-punches are firmly and conveniently secured within the subpunchholder, as best shown in Figs. 35 and 36. In Fig. 28 the cap or segmental holder 133is left off in order to more clearly show the other parts.

The dies for coacting with the piercingpunches are formed in a cylindrical die-block 136, that is secured in the supplemental or upper die-bed 137, which die-bed 137 is secured in any suitable manner on the top of the die-bed 118, so that the lower end of the die-block 136 may rest on the lower die-bed 118 or on a steel block 217, Figs. 1-1 and 28, that is inserted in the said die-bed 118. At

the right of this piercing die-block 136, in the same upper die-bed, are the two blanking-out dies 138 for coacting with the blanking-out punches 123 and 124. The die-block 136 is held in place by a set-rod 146, acted upon by a set-screw 147 at the front of the upper diebed, as shown in Fig. 14. The blanking-out punches and other parts are held therein by the same means, all of the rods and screws for this purpose being given the same reference-numerals.

The confronting faces of the main and supplementary die-beds are recessed or chambored out, as shown in Figs. 17 and 28, to make a passage-way for the nuts and to make room for the carrier and coacting parts. The blanking-outdies are made in the form of cylindrical blocks let into cylindrical holes in the upper die-bed and rest upon die-bases 139, which are mainly of cylindrical form, but are provided with shoulders 140 at their lower ends to rest upon corresponding shoulders in the holes of the upper die-bed, as shown in Fig. 28. The blanking-outdies also receive some support from the fixed back gage 203 at the rear of the passage-way for the blanks. The vertical thickness of each blanking-out die and its die-base taken to gether from the top of the blank as cut and forced down by the blanking-out punches to the lower end of the die-base is equal to some multiple of thickness of one nut-blank,where by when the dies are filled with nut-blanks the under face of the lowermost blank will be substantially in the plane of the lower end of the die-bases 139, and the blank under neath the stack of blanks in the die will be free to pass on to the right through the space provided for such passage and Without any liability of being caught or blocked by being partly in the die-base. Inother words, one nut-blank will bepushed wholly out of the blanking-die and its base for every descent of the blanking-out punch. When the dies are taken out and ground off at the upper end to sharpen them, a washer (not shown) of a thickness equal to the amount of metal removed by grinding may be placed in the diesocket between the lower end of the dies 138 and their bases 139, so as to maintain the same vertical depth of the complete die as before. In order to prevent the end of the bar or stock from being caught by the farther side or corner of the blanking-out diein case the end of the bar should dip downwardly a little, as it sometimes does, I incline the top face of the die upward, so as to make it the highest at the middle, as at 141, Fig. 28, which incline hasa tendency topush the end of the stock upwardlyas it is fed in, so that it will clear the farther upper corner of the die and insure its passage over the same without being caught thereon. The said incline 141 has no detrimental effect on the action of the blanking-out dies. Upon the top of the supplemental or upper die-bed is the combined cap and take-off 142 for the piercing punches and with a guide for the stock to guide it from the straightener before described to the said piercing punches and dies. A second guide 143 for the stock is also provided between the two blanking-out dies, as shown in Figs. 13 and 28. This second guide is loosely held in place upon the pins 218 and forced downwardly by the spring 219, so as to bear on the upper face of the stock passin g through the said guide to frictionally hold the stock severed by the first blanking-die, as hereinafter described, from moving forwardly faster than it is forced along. Underneath the cap and take-0ft 142 there is mounted to slide longitudinally from front to rear the rear stock-holding slide 144 and front stock-holding slide 145, the same being arranged for bearing upon and holding the stock by its edges when the centralholes for the nut-blan ks are being pierced by the piercingpunches. Passing from rear to front through the die-bed is a sliding rod 148, having an arm 149 atits front end provided with an adjusting-screw 150, that bears on the end of the front stock-holding slide 145. The rear end of the sliding rod 148 is provided with a slotted head 151, in the slot of which head the lower arm of the T-lever 152 cugages. The said lever is pivoted on the diebed by the pin 153, Fig. 14, and an adjustingscrew 154 in the upper arm of the T-lever bears on the rear stock-holding slide 144. The main arm of the T-lever 152 is acted upon by a cam 155 on the counter-shaft I. The parts are so timed that the T-lever 152 is acted upon by the highest part of the cam 155 when the piercing-dies are in action to punch the central holes in the nut-banks. Theyare also so timed in relation to the feedslide 79 that they hold the stock while the feed-slidemoves to the left and open to allow the stock to feed freely when the slide 79 moves to the right, thus making the feed-grip and edge-holding grip act alternately. The rod 148 is free to slide in its mounting, so that a'n even pressure is exerted on the front and rear edges of the stock when the stock is being pierced by the punches 128. By adjusting the screws 150 and 154 the slides 144 and 145 maybe adjusted so as to properly hold the stock firmly and also so as to properly center the stock with reference to the said punches.

The piercing-punches are so set as to pierce the central holes of two adjoining nut-blanks, and the first blanking-out die is set with its center a distance from the center of the adjacent piercing-punch equal to the width of two nut-blanks. The two blanking-out dies are set a distance from center to center equal to the width of two and a halt nut-blanks, thus leaving an intervening table between said blanking-out dies wide enough fora nutblank. For example, suppose the width of a nut-blank to be half an inch, then the piercing dies and punches are located a half inch apart from center to center, the second piercing die and punch and the first blanking-out die are located an inch apart from center to center and the two blanking-dies are located an inch and a quarter apart from center to cen- 

